FOUNDATION OF HOUSE

Title:	Building a foundation for high performance
	Author:	Harvey Kolodny
	Address:	Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, 105 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3E6, Canada
	Journal:	International Journal of Technology Management 1998 - Vol. 16, No.1/2/3 pp. 1-10
	Abstract:	This paper presents the detailed steps involved in building a foundation for a high performance work organisation. The steps are a part of a comprehensive model of the organisational change process. The model was developed within the context of manufacturing organisations but is considered to be applicable to a wide range of organisational sectors and organisational changes such as TQM or reengineering or teams. While only the front end of the Organisation Change Process Model is presented, it is this foundation for building a high performance organisation that is often given short shrift by managers anxious to change their organisations rapidly and it is their inattention to the foundation that is often the cause of the failure of their change initiatives.
	Keywords:	organisational change; high performance; high commitment; heightened awareness; organisational choice; organisational readiness.
	DOI:	10.1504/IJTM.1998.002652
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What is raft foundation and what are its advantages??Are this type foundations costly??

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A raft foundation is essential a mat foundation. The purpose of a mat foundation is when you a building built on a site with low soil bearing conditions or when a foundation. A raft foundation is use to distribute the buidling pressure over a large area so the soil can bear the stress. Think of it this way. If you had a building that has a site soil capacity of two thousand pounds per square foot and the building weight is 8 thousand pounds. What foundation would put less stress on the soil? a 500 square foot foundation or a 1000 square foot foundation. A 500 square foot will give you a stress of 16 pounds per square foot while the 1000 will give you 8 pounds per square foot. Less stress is imposed on the building with the large foundation. Also, the raft foundation sometimes have haunches that go below the slab portion to resist punching shear from column or large concentration loads or wide beams along edges and through the intermediate in the slab to resist bending forces due to expansive soils (clay soils) and bending forces imposed the structure above.

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• 2 years ago